It's been 10 days since my intent shifted to MAY's use of my one little word: MAKE TIME FOR MEDITIATION.
So far...it's been HARD. Really really hard. With this intention, I wanted to spend some time everyday living the Oprah Winfrey quote above. However, I've been heartbroken from missing him & it being his birthday this week, stressed from several consecutive days in a row of Tasmanian devil teacher-tornadoes, and plain ol' EXHAUSTED.
Every time I try to sit up and focus on my breathing, focus on calming, teacher work enters my brain, what happened with the kids in class that day enters my brain, where are the cats, will my sister come home and interrupt me, I'm cold, I'm hot, is that a bug...
You get the point.
Then, on some occassions these past 10 days, my body called for me to lay down:
...and each and every time I've fallen asleep.
[Deep sigh.]
Also, to be honest, I haven't meditated the last couple of days. Stress and work has been too much (but that's probably the time I need to meditate!)...soooo, in the next 10 days, I will try to be better. I will try to be consistent with at least 5 minutes spent meditating.
This is more a challenge for me than I thought.
Do you meditate at all?
What are some of your tricks/approaches to it?
T.G.I.F.